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Hong Kong, Monday, March 25. 1935.
Raising The School-
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
ARABIA AND ABYSSINIA
It will be interesting to see what
MODERN MANNERS OF YOUTH
COMPLETE CHANGE OF OUTLOOK
effect the appointment of General de WHEN THE
Bono as Italian High Commissioner | for East Africa, will have on the Abyssinian slave trade.
CHILDREN BECOME
PARENTS
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- WHAT THEN?
(By Gilbert Frankau)
On the authority of one of our greatest African experts the main reason for the slave trade from Africa across the Red Sea is the;
HAVE on other occasions stat-"Yah" at all the chivalry- which growing sterility of the Arab women. ed my belief that the present distinguished the past. Most Arab children are now being generation of youth the "war Respect for one's elders may be bred from Arab" men and African babies" generation-suffere from "definitely out of date." Co-educa
tion may be better than the ro-
women.
It is a powerful motive and will be difficult to counteract.
NO MORE HOLY WARS
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no degenerney.
1 have faith In our modern mantle attitude." But what will be young. With the exception of a the answer when the "modern boy, small defeatist minority, Icon- in his plus-fours or his grey flannel. sider that the boys and the girls trousers, and the modern girl, in jof to-day are no less intelligent, her camel's-hair coat and her A traveller who has recently re-no leas courageous, and no less sports clothes, surveying them-* turned from Africa, says that there ambitious than their pre-war pre-selves in the mirror of their re will be no more "Jehads." or holy decessors. Nor can I discover any flections; begin to ask themselves, deterioration in their morals. "How are we going to like it if our {children behave to us as we behave:
to our parents?"
When They Become Parents?` And this is bound to happen or later. Because youth's real trouble--if only youth would
wara.
Islam is losing ground not only in Turkey but also in Africa.
Manners Of Youth Some years ago the Fund regime deed our modern young can be But that their manners → if in- in Egypt banned the right of public said to have manners are any- meeting. Since then Waafd and thing but deplorable not even their sooner other meetings are being held in warmest admirer, can deny. masques, where they cannot be in One does not need to be a snob realise it-is that not even its own terfered with.
one does not need to be a great supreme wiadom can prevent.... it Just as many. Copts are present stickler for what used to be call-from eventually growing up. as Muslime.
There la, too, the ed etiquette to voice this com- strange spectacle of women deliver-plaint. You hear it
It is only when we grow up alas. wherever-unless someone lams it into our iny political addresses in mosques. you go. The lack of social disci-adolescence with a birch, a cane, or pline among the youth of to-day the back of a hairbrush that we Your Daily Smile!" is as patent as it is unpleasant. realise the value of ritual, of
Deportment is almost a lost art tradition. and respect for one's eldera A point which was well realised vanishing quality.
by the nameless author of that
of
Visitar (to convict): "Don't any your relatives come to see you?"
Convict: "They don't have to. They're
in here."
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All the old rules of behaviour Victorian slogan "Spare the rod be established for pupils of 11 upwards. Steady progress has
are falling into abeyance; while and spoil the child.”|| Tabit heen made in putting this plan
the only rule of youthful conduct
Clearly, from those good Vice Reporter: "Why all the gloom?"" into effect. The children now
seams to read: "Let me, being torian days, there comes Editor: "I revolved a letter yesterday young, express myself even if I memory of my twelve-years-old change their schools when they of a large bequest; and in the rush, I can only do so by eating peas with self, quivering under the "gig-
informing me that I was the beneficiary are-11, and the teachers have replied, Your contribution is returned my knife." experience in post-primary
lampa" of that prince of private- in-with thanks,"" struction. They find that the
There are, of course, many plea-school masters "Beetle" Hawtrey. four years demanded by the
sant exceptions. Not every boy,
Schoolmasters As lately as last July Lord Hadow Report is not too long a Tourist: "Hey, brother, did you know even, from our most exclusive pu-
"Frankau," thunders the Beetle, Halifax refused to entertain pro- time for an education aiming at Billy (driving a Model T): standard of a certan, young friend trousers properly. Hang that coat blic schools, can live up to the "get out of your bed. Fold those posals for raising the school-a training for life and citizen-"Yeah, but they were on the ol' thing of mine about whom it has been as you've been taught to hang it— THE KWONG KWUI CO., LTD. leaving age to 15. Recently the ship, and their views have when I bought it."
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GIRLS
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Happy Days "Mother," exclaimed little Jans, talking to a lady. And I have ac, kau....... "they're going to teach tis domestic tually overheard, though only on one occasion, a modern daughter "Do you mean domestic science," ask-say to a modern mother, "Darling, ed her mother,
There is a bare hope," interrupted
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LOCAL NEWS :
BREVITIES
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Conthyed on Page 10) POLICE OFFICER'S DEATH
TRAGEDY AT
KOWLOON
The discovery was first made by
of attitude reflects the movement of public opinion during the last! six months. The main ground for re-examination of the issue lies in the change of circum
On the whole, nevertheless, those who look for good manners in any-1 stances. When the Socialist:
one under thirty must look for Government sought, in the three
them with a microscope. To be Bills which it Introduced during
The 8.8. Santhia will leave Amoy casual, to be unpunctual, to be un- its term of office, to prolong
on Wednesday afternoon, and in due tidy, to consider one's own comfort
SUB-INSPECTOR "CARSON education by a year, it had
to arrive here on Thursday. On before anybody else's convenience
FOUND SHOT chosen its moment badly. The
Over 460.000 women and girla Saturday, at 10 am. she will sail these, and similar departures "bulge the term applied by
for Calcutta, via Singapore and from the old social standard, are so Acting Sub-Inspector Thomas minutes devoted daily, to the caro the schools of the large numberation from the Ossoavlachim, which Charged with the theft of a len proud of such
educationista to the influx into throughout the Soviet Union are
commonplace that they hardly ex-Carson, of the Hong Kong Police actually receiving aviation instruc-ports.
cite attention. The young
are Force, was found dead with a bullet. of children born shortly after,
conduct. Their wound in his head shortly before B the war was just passing into is the civil organisation for train- the Senior and Central schools. ing the population to participate thor quit case, valued at $40, from elders, though they complain about o'clock last evening in his quarters. a fellow boarder in the Nam, King it, are too spineless to reprove.. at the Kowloon City Police Station. Accommodation, already limited, in military operations in case of 12 But how, you ask, can I appro-would have been
We had a word, in the remote His own revolver was found" lying boarding house, of No. 80, Con- intolerably emergency, according to an an- priate beauty 7
strained by the addition of announcement of its chairman. naught Road Central, Yip Kai, 23 past, for any man, whether young beside his body. other year's children, or else Comrade Eidemann, who added year-old unemployed, was sentenced or old, who disregarded the ordin- large capital expenditure would that the total membership of the to one month's hard labour by Mr. ary rules of behaviour. We called his room-boy, who had come to call have been involved in the pro-
Osacaviachim now includes 24 A. A. Macfadyen at the Central such a man, succinctly, cad." him. vision of school places which in million women and girls and that
And just one scale above the cad Folice Court this morning.
It was stated that shortly after we placed the "bounder." But does 7.30 p.m. while other station officers a few more years would not be this number is increasing daily,
Three months' hard labour was one ever hear those words to-day? were at dinner, a sound resembling needed. Now, however, the No less than 41 women have
bulge" is beginning to enter in qualified as aviation commanders by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the have fallen into abeyance
Imposed on Yam Choi Fuk, aged 19,
They, like the rules of behaviour, a shot was heard. No particular dustry. By 1937 it will have in the Soviet Russian flying corps, Central Police Court this morning
attention was paid to it until a wild passed out of the schools
No Regard For Others al-while two women have been ac for assaulting Ke Feng Fong yester. It is not considered caddish-to mess room half an hour later.
ly excited servant rushed into the together.
cepted by the Military Training day at 2.30. p.m. Accommodation was the rock Academy for positions in the Red
give just one instance--when two The body was found lying in a on which the late Government's Army.
youths arrive ten minutes late at pool of blood. Life was then ex- efforts were finally shipwrecked Ossoaviachim become aviatrices Central, Yum Hoi, unemployed, was seats, and discuss their private af Kong Police Force 18 years ago. Not all women members of the pliers from No. 120, Des Voeux Road dozen old ladies to get to their Sub Inspector Carson joined Hong
For the theft of two pairs of the theatre, trample on half-a-tinct. Bukutel, for which I enclose five Its Bill, as eventually rejected briwever. Last summer over 20 ned $10, in default two weeks hard fairs for the remainder of the act. He came out from England, after the by the House of Lords, included 000 worden and girls spent their labour, by Mr. A. Q. A. A. Macfad- A young man is not considered a disbanding of the famous "Black" an amendment carried against the Government in the House of holidays in military camps, where Commons by the votes of their they were instructed by experts in Yea at the Central Police Court this bounder just because he keeps and Tana" with whom he served
morning. own Socialist supporters which all knd of duties required in times
cleven people waiting twenty miin-during the Great War. For cons- provided that the Bill, should not
utes for dinner.
picuous bravery he was awarded the become operative until means
A fine of $100, in default one
And who can see any sarcasm Military Medal had been found for recondition-
on a Chinese widow, Lo Chan, by the Eton boy who observed that a War, Carson suffered from gas pol- month's hard labour, was imposed nowadays in that old, old story of It is understood that during the ing denominational schools out of public funds. Public funds.
Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Cen-ig wanted a chair, of the Win-soning. however, involve public interfer.
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事
WHERE DOES B.B.C. MONEY GO? Noted Author Raises
The Question
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under which a local education
tickets.
for the rest of the cricket match? authority was to have the right
The girls of 1935 will be lucky of appointing teachers to schools
The RMS. Empress of Asia if they are thought of at all, let which it had reconditioned was
What he terms the B.B.CB and loaves for Hong Kong at 11 least if one can judge by the way arrived in Shanghai this morning alone fetched and carried for. At viewed askance by many Angli-
"skeletonised accounts," which cans and was repudiated by the withhold vital information." come P.m. to-day
they have been elbowed from the Roman Catholic communion. in for a good deal of criticism in
cocktail tables and jostled in the (Note that round-the-"omnibuses" because, though the members of the teaching "Take the main item (in the Ac- New York via Shanghal (Woo-ples our "young casuals" are not world cruise, will leave here for Mayfair exhibits the worst exam- profession. A new technique of counts for the year ending Decem-sung), Chinwangtao, Beppu, Kohe, entirely confined to one end of the democratic education as do her 31, 1983): of £780,846 odd for wokohama, Honolulu, Hile, San town!) veloped in the Hadow Report of roar is run that this covers a Francisco, and the Panama Canal, 1926. It provided for two educa- told, it is true, that this tional courses, the first of six wide field of salaries and expenses. at.8,a.m, on Wednesday, years for children between 5 and But the Information is valueless
Sydney A. Moseley's book. "Broad-tala, continuing her
The R. M. S. Empress of Bri- omnibuses of 1984.
Support for the higher leaving age is particularly strong among casting in My Time.”
"We are
Respect For Elders
... I am all for personal liberty, and largely for sex equality. But I do Who draw the line at a personal, liberty which claims the right to make long noses at all the traditions of social intercourse and at the type of sex equality which would shout
11. the second of four years for unless we are also told what pro-tion/Salaries and Expenses." children between 11 and 15. To portion of the total is spent under is getting this money? give effect to its plans the Reach separate heading,
What salaries are actually bein [port proposed that separate Again there fa a nice little item paid? Are the big men getting tool Senior and Central Schools should of nearly 299,000 for Administra, much and the little men too little
[your goldfish' this morn-
·lega again, thank you.